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Quite sceptical. As a neuroscience student I see these type of popular scientific studies a lot, because they're better clickbait material than some boring medicine.However, these studies often have very little prove it works and often have a great amount of bad side effects.We should definetly investigate the effects of psychedelic drugs on mental health, but we should not spread messages like these. They motivate people to do drugs and not use medicine and most people are not critical enough to think that it might not work or have side effects. For some people, psychedelic drugs can do a lot more harm than good. For example give them a bad trip, trigger schizofrenia, severe heart problems. I suggest being very careful when reading these type of articles.

Smaller trials have already shown promising results and in comparison to current pharmaceuticals used to treat depression or anxiety, the risk of side effects is drastically less. Both in terms of likelihood of an occurrence and the severity.

Do they know the molecular basis behind it? How is it tested? On humans with an control group or on animals? Have they found causality? What are the side effects? If tested on humans, were they able to live a normal life (not being high)? What is the effective dosis? How should people take the drug? How will it be manufactured? What are the long term effects? Is it suitable for everyone? Does it prevent mental health issues or only treat it? How does it effect the brain's activity?

These are all questions needed to be answered before bringing out a medicine and these are only half. People are not aware enough how scientific research works, so I think it's best to live without these headlines.

Problem is that I do know quite a lot of people who take CBD oil or just plain weed, because they think it will solve their problems. It's really more harmful than people think.

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The only people I know who do psychedelics are stoners who claim they feel enlightened by psychedelics. I'm not saying it's not possible, but I am saying the people I've seen do them aren't gaining anything. They just like tripping out in the woods with their girlfriends and then claiming they're of higher intelligence because they've "seen shit" while on shrooms.I would love to see something like this help people but unfortunately all I've seen of them is stoners getting more arrogant and thinking they're better than others because they've tripped balls and consider it some sort of religious experiment.

I agree. My boyfriend gets like that sometimes. I have tripped 3x and its enlightening. Personally i think so. It changes the way you think and view the world. It changed my view in a sinister way.. The second time i tripped was terrifying. Lasted 14 hours

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If there is a tool to be used that doesn't cause any additional harm, then why not use it? Ecstasy and MDMA are very safe drugs, despite the media hype, and can be used to successfully treat PTSD. Marijuana helps with a slue of medical problems (including PTSD). I don't know the exact medical implications of psilocybin and LSD, but it's worth looking into at least. I mean, shit, the guy who discovered the double-helix formation of DNA was tripping balls on an accidental acid dose when he thought it up.

It's not news to me. I never tried LSD but every time I took shrooms, especially during the comedowns, I get all those VERY deep thoughts which help me figure out things I was clueless about before. It helps seeing bigger pictures in my opinion.

... don't do drugs kids.

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I feel like with all harmful drugs they weren't put on earth tol be harmful. Heroin was made as medicine. Weed helps with all illnesses. It is the people that have made drugs bad. Using them to get high instead of medical reasons, if psychdelics were used as medicine the people taking them would abuse them and they would no longer be effective in a positive way.

Psyhoactive substances are an interesting field to study, and they can certainly benefit society, if not for anything else, for better understanding them. I can't imagine them having a place in classical medicine, but I am open to suggestions in how it can be useful.

It's really fucking stupid to have, on the one hand, thousands of diseases for which there is no known cure or treatment, and on the other hand, a bunch of powerful drugs that you're not allowed to study.